one way woulda been more convenient as im only 100 miles from ull but no way in car id make that on a friday evening£330 return.
tunnel back as the thing is in the after noon and can get back into england and a way up the country before midnight
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tunnel back as the thing is in the after noon and can get back into england and a way up the country before midnight
Just an update.
A mate wants to join me on this trip so out of curiosity I phoned P&O Hull-Rotterdam ferry for a price, (you can't book more than 1 bike on line)
For two people sharing a 2 birth cabin plus 2 bikes it's £517 for a 5 day return.
They charge £105 for the extra bike....The robbing Barstewards!!!
A mate wants to join me on this trip so out of curiosity I phoned P&O Hull-Rotterdam ferry for a price, (you can't book more than 1 bike on line)
For two people sharing a 2 birth cabin plus 2 bikes it's £517 for a 5 day return.
They charge £105 for the extra bike....The robbing Barstewards!!!
~50 quid per leg. Is that a lot?
t'is compared to 30 quid last year (15 quid per leg) and still doesn't take up as much room as a car.
Uh - yeah that's steep, I agree.
P&O , what did you expect ?
And cars don’t fall over quite so often. They, more often than not, carry more than one occupant. More occupants translates into more money spent in the bar, restaurant and shop. In short, motorcycles are a pain in the arse. Coaches are perfect.
And you can get 4 motorcycles in the same space as a car with the majority of vehicles carrying two people, also if the bike falls over then you haven't tied it down right.
Oh and the majority of bikers have beer bellies
Oh and the majority of bikers have beer bellies
I had booked to go over on the 16th May and return on the 20th so got the benefit of the 5 Day Saver. However I’ve now decided to book and return a day later so lose the benefit. I must say that charging me £25 for a change to the following day is more than fair. Hopefully the weather will improve! 
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Or splash out for a cabin and hopefully make it to Adenau safely .
Perzackly.
I've paid £411.00 return. Outside cabin for myself for next week. 80 miles to Hull what's not to like.
"NORTH SEA FERRIES" Blast from the pastYou’re doing better than me then. I looked at coming back on NORTH SEA FERRIES ( if you’re old enough to remember)
End of May. £304 one way,one person, inside cabin and dinner only.
...Yep before you needed a cabin and could just kip down anywhere 
When someone forgot to close the doors changed all that.
One way has always been dearer BUT the prices have gone through the roof. Without sounding too much like 'All our yesterdays' I remember being able to book a single in a shared cabin, they always had a couple or three 4 berths that they let the single traveller share, 4 strangers in the same cabin for a really cheap deal.....I would book one then when I boarded I would 'upgrade' to a single, the price worked out at just over a quarter of the original price
What amazes me is the prices now, I paid £260 return last year and now that's gone up to £333 plus an extra bike last year was 30 quid, today its £105 and they are paying their crew 5 quid an hour with shifts lasting 3 bloody weeks.
Ferry companies and eurotunnel have a truly captive audience with UK residents. They can charge what they like and they still seem to fill their boats and trains.
That is certainly true. There was an attempt by Eurotunnel to buy P&O’s cross-Channel operations, which was scuppered by HMG, as it would remove an area of competition. That laudable intention has rather foundered since, as the two companies fares often track and mirror each other.
Leaving a possible form of price fixing aside, fares of all sorts are (rather like taxes, service costs, the cost of a pint and cigarettes, the price of petrol and energy and insurance) all very subjective. To listen to some on this forum, everything should be free or, at, worse cost no more than a tenner.
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